Synonyms and Antonyms of rear
1
to bring to maturity through care and education
- watched a documentary on how wolves rear their young
father, mother
attend, care (for), cradle, cultivate, mind, minister (to), nurture, watch
discipline, educate, instruct, mentor, school, teach, train, tutor
edify, enlighten, indoctrinate
feed, provide (for), supply
advance, forward, further, promote
prepare
direct, guide, lead, shepherd, show
2
to fix in an upright position
- it took all the men in the village to rear the frame for the barn, pulling hard at the ropes until all the sides were standing
brace, buttress, prop (up), shore (up), support
boost, crane, elevate, heave, heft, heighten, hike, hoist, jack (up), lift, perk (up), pick up, up, uphold, uplift
3
to form by putting together parts or materials
- the city has plans for rearing a new convention center over the next two years
assemble, build, confect, construct, erect, fabricate, make, make up, piece, put up, raise, set up
carpenter, fashion, forge, frame, hammer, handcraft, manufacture, mold, produce, shape
prefabricate
begin, coin, create, generate, inaugurate, initiate, innovate, invent, originate
constitute, establish, father, found, institute, organize
conceive, concoct, contrive, cook (up), design, devise, imagine, think (up)
reassemble, rebuild, reconstruct, redevelop, reedify [British], retrofit
jerry-build, rig (up), throw up
combine, unite
demolish, destroy, devastate, flatten, level, pull down, pulverize, raze, ruin, ruinate, shatter, smash, wreck
blow up, explode
detach, disengage
disconnect, disjoin, disunite, divide, separate
